Thursday, May 7, 2026

Thursday's Terror Threat

Haven't the energy to waste screaming & shouting at you lying, cheating pukes. Into the pit w/ all of you!!

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Stupidity & Sexual Paranoia

Nation Of Sheep, Tell Me Whatcha Gonna Do, When The Commies & The Homos Come Looking For You?

Pegged them & you sheep 43 yrs. ago, & their & your stupidity quotients continue to increase. Entropy never stops!What goes through these people's minds? Do they believe Trump's "transgender for everyone" fears? Do they think this will frighten anyone not already scared by the gay armies coming to put their wee-wees in specimen jars? I take it they'll be ignoring the actual terrorists, from the Klan to today's well-armed & violent right-wing organizations that they already embrace & support.
Ken Klippenstein:
Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists”  —  New national counterterrorism strategy vows to “cripple them before” crimes are committed  —  Subscriptions are declining; PLEASE becoming a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work  —  The White House declared war on the American people today, labeling its political opponents as terrorists, including “Left-wing extremists.” The new label also claims that there are “deepening alliances” between “the far-left and Islamists” — or pro-Palestinian protesters.
John Hayward / Breitbart:   Trump Counterterrorism Strategy: Aggressive Response, Border Security, Hemispheric Safety
Diana Nerozzi / Politico:
Trump counterterrorism strategy targets ‘violent left-wing extremists’ with ‘transgender ideology’ … The Trump team is also looking at how domestic online activities could incite violence, a focus that follows an increase in political violence, such as the multiple attempted assassinations of Trump and the killing of Charlie Kirk.
NewsMax.com:   US Presses Allies to Expand Counterterrorism Role in Iran and Beyond
Jeff Mordock / Washington Times:
White House counterterrorism strategy to target left-wing groups, transgender ideology
Violet Jira / NOTUS:   Trump's New Counterterrorism Strategy Focuses on Cartels and ‘Anti-American’ Ideology
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:   Gorka Fumes Against the Left in New Counterterrorism Strategy
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:   U.S. to press allies to bolster counterterrorism efforts under new strategy
Meanwhile, from junior high: "Testicularly challenged". Every accusation is a confession from these sad pindicks.

They Seem Nice

You're Next, Yankee Pigs!

Silicon Valley can't wait to turn their fascist technology on your sorry asses.Watch the Nazis run your town. Note well that there are many Chinese willing to oppress their fellow citizens. Don't think there aren't millions of American thugs who can't wait to enlist. The enemy's within!!

History Shows Again & Again ...

The Assassination of the Emperor Caligula,
by Lazzaro Baldi, between 1624 and 1703
The Economist: “America’s founding fathers brooded about the decline of the Roman republic into a corrupt and brutal empire. They feared such tyrannical emperors as Caligula, who renamed temples in his honour, had golden statues of himself erected, and revelled in humiliating Rome’s former elites, including the cowardly senators who handed him supreme powers.”

“Many ordinary Romans loved Caligula as a showman who built marble monuments, organised military parades and relished attending gladiatorial contests, the gorier the better. To show his contempt for the ruling classes, Caligula threatened to make his horse a consul.”

“Mr Trump, a fan of golden statues, marble monuments and cage-fighting, has yet to appoint a horse to his cabinet. He has, however, appointed unqualified sycophants to positions of high rank, where they vie to show their loyalty while squabbling over trivial perks of office. Americans can only hope that their follies are personal to the Trump era, and can be reversed by an election or two.”

Hope in one hand, shit in the other & see which piles up first, fools!

[Political Wire]

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

An Exercise In Boredom

Literally watching paint dry.
Note high-technology spray booth. Safety first!

"War Is Over"

Chronic Brain Syndrome:

Trump: "I ended eight wars. Nobody else ever ended a war."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
A musical aggregation willing to confront mental health issues. Especially their own.

Tedious Tuesday Tedium

The most exciting interesting stuff I've observed in at least 48 hrs.
Who made the strikethroughs?

Monday, May 4, 2026

Here Comes The Future

Less food, less water.You made your bed, now go lie in it. Or shoot it out at the waterhole.

Jacob Miller, 74 Today ...

... if he hadn't died (or been murdered by the C.I.A.) in an automobile accident in 1980.
One of the greats & a great loss, his music lives on, what if ..., &c.?
From his first session.
Earlier numbers w/ Augustus Pablo.
W/ versions.

Maddened Monday

Pretty pictures to distract from my sincere raging desire to kill the bastard slumlord & all his employees & relatives.
Free as a seagull.
Seroiusly about to lose what little control I still have over my desires for vengeance.
And fix your gawddam "rent portal" too, so I can pay my fucking pound of flesh to you, slumlord scum!!

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Shut Your Festering Gobs!!

We’re losing 338 spoken words every day

We've been nattering less and less each year since 2005

++good! The sooner you ninnies go to Newspeak & I don't have to hear your incessant inane bullshit prattle the better!

[Science Focus]

Parasite Report

Not one fucking penny for these parasites! Years in prison would be appropriate: A life sentence for every person or family a slumlord tried to evict, & death for every successful eviction. This bullshit & these bloodsuckers cannot be allowed to stand.
So fucking tired of fucking everything being fucking fucked.

You Suck Sunday!

And all the other days of the wk.
Both a threat & a promise: Had I the energy of the proverbial two-yr. old, every one of you sub-humans would be dead. Is that enough for the informant bastard to call the pigs?

You piece of shit, you called them twice in a fucking month & they sent me away once. Do you think the police were any help to me? No, merely made me even fucking angrier, to the point that a day w/o threatening some cretinous piece of shit w/ death & torture here is like a day w/o sunshine.

Don't tell me you finally wised up two 'phone calls late, either, you puke! You denied me free expression & cost me a wk. of my life, why shouldn't I be angry enough to kill? (You've had a yr. in which to apologize, rat!) What do you fucking idiotic morons expect when you call fascist pigs, anyway? Do none of you understand anything about how your horrid world of shit & pain works?

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Not Just Fertilizer: Everything

90+% plastic, & virtually all made in The People's Republic of China.
Exceptions: The ruined depot was "Made in Western Germany", possibly in the 1970s; the black switching loco was made in Austria in the '80s or '90s. This scout car was "Produced in the Netherlands and Vietnam"
& the water tank was "Made in Vietnam", both very recently, I assume.
Not that where it's made will make any difference when the raw materials run out.

Truth & Facts from Comrade Misfit:
This point is not original to me: Other than the computer/phone you are reading this on, you probably can easily reach and touch something made in East Asia that is made of plastics or synthetics. Those things are petrochemicals, which means that the base material is oil.

That oil comes from the Persian Gulf.

The last tankers that made it through the Strait of Hormuz before the war started are either in port or are making port. Since almost nobody keeps large supplies of raw materials on hand anymore (the whole world has gone just-in-time supply), the plastics makers are in trouble. That effects almost everything. Think of all the stuff that comes in plastic containers and bottles, like your prescriptions.

All of that stuff will be in short supply. Even if the war ends tomorrow, it'll take months, if not years, to get everything back to where it was.

At greater length: The Mahablog, which links to a Krugman interview transcript. If the gift link has expired, or you're functionally illiterate, the audio.

Crusader Alkie

Nate Krieger / Vox:
The Department of Holy War  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has a longstanding fascination with the Crusades.  That's right, the Crusades: the series of late 11th to 13th century medieval wars in which Europeans fought to control the Holy Land.  He has tattoos that reference the Crusades …
Is having a delusional drunken religious buffooon whose Gawd is the hateful, vengeful cosmic asshole of the Old Testament running the Dep't. of "War" an ideal situation? The unembeddable answer.

21st Century Schizoid Sat.

Interesting: Audible drums start at (4:35). (Or am I that old & wretched? You needn't answer.)
Some hot shit when released in 1969, & it holds up.
Remains an accurate premonition of this 21st Century, other than napalm having been semi-outlawed.
Cat's foot iron claw Neuro-surgeons scream for more At paranoia's poison door Twenty first century schizoid man. Blood rack barbed wire Politicians' funeral pyre Innocents raped with napalm fire Twenty first century schizoid man. Death seed blind man's greed Poets' starving children bleed Nothing he's got he really needs Twenty first century schizoid man.

Letters Of The Day

LXXXVI XXXXVII
Wanna buy some seashells, on the seashore?

Friday, May 1, 2026

Friday Freak Out

Scheduled yesterday. No working or nothin'!!

MAY DAY!

Just Fucking Don't!!

Do not produce, consume, or engage in any other activities, including breathing if you can possibly avoid it. I may not get the mail, or even eat, not that I don't go a day w/o often.

Workingmen Arm Yourselves and Appear in Full Force

Having missed high school American History, I was unaware that May Day as worker's day was a result of the Haymarket Square Riot of 1886.
When "workingmen" weren't the sad collection of sissypants they are today, a mere 140 yrs. later. Wake the hell up! You dumb bastards have nothing to lose but your chains!!

Agitating broadsides source.

Thursday, April 30, 2026

A Day Like Any Other ... Miserable

Burn Baby Burn!

Convenient illustration of our subtext.
If Home Despot hadn't, for some reason, given me a credit card I'd burn the fucking dump to the ground. Lumber, paint & all sorts of other flammable, toxic crap; it'd be quite the show.

Why arson? Got plenty of exercise walking from aisle to aisle looking for three items their website claimed were in stock in whichever aisle & bay, but there was sweet fuck all. Did find one of the five I wanted, & bought a different brand of something else; that's one (One & a half?) of five. Not even empty spaces where the items had been but had sold out. The last of the five was visible, but some wage-slave was stocking the aisle & had it fenced off the entire hr. I wandered in the desert.

Can't decide if I want to summon the energy to send the incompetent bastard manager an e-mail, but his name & address are right on the receipt.

Lunar Seas

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Enough Already

Had it w/ the outside world of low-life human scum, middle-class pigs, billionaires & the rest of you. (I'd kill for enough money to have everything delivered.) No point sitting here typing all day for an audience of tens of the 370–400 million native-born English speakers, & the approximate additional billion who use it as a second language. Not that I'd expect all the furriners to get the subtle humour that's extruded here daily, but they should dig the images & music.

Fortunately, there is distraction, the layout occupying a quarter to a third of the bunker, which I'd like to finish before I fall over & die, when it will no doubt be destroyed by the Philistine slumlord. Thus the way of all things.And I keep discovering things to do on YouTube. Who knew to paint the ties & track? Yet once you've seen painted rails & ties, naked, unrusted, unweathered rails & black ties won't cut it. 

Also, this one neat trick."Fiddly little jobs" indeed. A possibly easier version of the neat trick.

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Cletus Safari: Meet The Moping Morons

Stupidity increased throughout the day.

Per Nancy Nall & The NYT, there's one born every minute:
The stupidest motherfuckers on the planet, ladies and gentlemen. The guy making that argument for not levying property taxes on people living in paid-off houses thinks he might enjoy that benefit someday. His tiny brain can’t conceive that the richest people in the country — the kind who can afford to pay cash for a house — would be the happiest recipients of this policy change. He doesn’t even understand what property taxes are, does he? No, he does not. And yet, his vote counted the same as yours.

Bring back civics education. And happy Wednesday to all who live in this stupid, doomed country.

Read it & weep. Or other visceral reactions. How many of these fools will nonetheless vote for a moderate, sensible (in comparison) Republican douchewallader like Li'l Marco "Tiny Feet" Rubio? Doomed indeed. Hope the "gift link" works.

Sanewashing Continues From Former "Tiffany Network" ...

... Which Is Now The Nazi Network

Idolatry: 15-ft. gilded statue of The Donald at Trump Doral.
Decoding Fox News tells us:
On Sunday April 26 President Donald J. Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell for a CBS “60 Minutes” interview the day after a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

That evening a 13-minute edit of the interview aired on CBS. The network also published the full 40-minute version on “60 Minutes Overtime.”

I went through both and made a transcript of exactly what was included and what was cut from the shorter version that aired on network television. The final 13-minute edit that CBS broadcast on Sunday was a bit of a Frankenstein monster as the president was sometimes cut off mid-sentence while other sections were cut and moved around to give the conversation a better flow.

Throughout the longer un-edited interview the president gave disorganized rambling answers that were filled with false statements about foreign investment in the U.S., immigration, and the 2020 election. He also brought up transgender athletes more than once and trashed the Democratic Party and the members of the press.

"Transgender For Everyone"

My favorite part:
Things like transgender for everyone. [?!?] I’m against that. There’s so many things that I’m against. I don’t think they’re controversial. I think the other side is controversial, but I do a lot of things and I get things done. And, you know, we’re respected now as a country all over the world. And some people love that, but some people probably don’t.
He's gotten one hell of a lot of "things" done alright. Eternal war, internal strife, tariffs, the list of his accomplishments is never-ending. And he's kept us safe: Men can be absolutely certain that no lezbos are coming to their houses to "transgender" them in Lumpy's America.
Echoing the reported opinion of former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson, Lebowitz thinks the biggest danger of Trump is that he is a moron. “Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”
Stupid, & scared of things that don't exist. Paranoid delusions.
AI Overview: These delusions are a severe form of paranoia, often involving persecution, and are treated with a combination of medication and psychotherapy.
P.S.: Who the hell's this "Al" who's suddenly everywhere, acts as if he knows everything & is a great surrealist painter?

Let's Hope We Don't See Anything Else This Stupid For The Rest Of The Day

"86 47"? That's nothing. Try these: Impeach, indict, imprison! Off w/ his head!! Kill him before he kills you!!!

Now I just sit here & wait to be indicted. C'mon you chickenshit bastards. Do you have the nerve?

In Its Own Words

WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left

You'll have to click, as Zeteo doesn't offer embedding of its videos.

Turkey-Neck Tuesday

Monday, April 27, 2026

Wash Day Blues

Pretty pics to distract from my ultimatum/death threat.

Ultimatum For The Slumlord

If the fucking laundry room isn't working by May Day, I will march my ass the two blocks to your offices & suffocate your cheap parasitic ass w/ my dirty laundry, you putrid bastard, as there is no point to living any damn longer if I have to leave the bunker to get my washing done. Six-plus months of going to the laundromat signed your death warrant, you rancid son-of-a-bitch. It's killing time!!
Pretty good sound considering the lack of microphones & amplification.

Does This Sky Look Angry To You?

Sunday, April 26, 2026

This Is (Vaguely) Interesting

Note "change":
Couldn't reconcile my credit union account (Yrs. in banking left me a compulsive mess.) by a dime, because I wasn't expecting penny rounding change from a debit card.

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Shots Fired

"Curses! Foiled Again!!

At last, Second Amendment-style resistance. Sic semper tyrannis, to coin a phrase. 

The Crook-in-Chief should be living in constant paranoia by now. That's the kind of reality that does intrude on his otherwise delusional mind. Live in fear, puny humanoid!

"The Situation Is Under Control"

More Of This, Please

Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali's capital and other cities on Saturday, in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years. The military said later in the day that the situation was under control.
Can't wait until the Xianist extremists & separatists start this crap here. Although the Trump/Hegseth U.S. military may be on the Xian side. Death to seditionists & insurrectionists!!

Same Stuff Saturday

More mind-numbing images of stupid clouds, the stupid sky, & pathetic palms.

Friday, April 24, 2026

It Was Fifty Yrs. Ago Today ...

No memory of watching this 50 yrs. ago (or any time since). 

Scheduled months ago, possibly before Mark (The Phlorescent Leech) Volman passed. And Martin Mull's been history for almost two yrs. now. Half-amazed I'm still here. One of these days this may be posts from a ghost. Have an item scheduled almost a yr. & a half out, because that's the 100th anniv., & no one cares about 99.

The Wiccan Menace Threatens Us All!

Get Help Before It's Too Late, Weirdo!

Will this delusional witchfinder order the Navy to start bombing Monterey because Wiccans give him the willies?
What rocks does the Pervert Party turn over to find these bizarre specimens?
“We can’t let it turn like this. There’s a place in Monterey, California called Lovers Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point, but now it’s become– they took out the Christ, it’s Lovers Point, and it’s really– Monterey is a very dark place now,” said Cao during an interview with former Bethel Church pastor Sean Feucht. “A lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over. We can’t let that happen to Virginia.”

Business Insider reported at the time that while there did appear to be a Wiccan presence in Monterey, there was “little evidence that the community has ‘taken over’ the sunny seaside locale.”

It's the 21st damn Century, people: Comic books & fairy tales are not real. Fun, but fiction!! And now, the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion is becoming fiction.

Fact check: It's in Pacific Grove, not Monterey, it may not have been "Lovers of Christ Park" since the 19th Century, when it was a Methodist retreat, & it's now a city park, so no endorsement of religion. Acting Sec. Cao seems to know more about fairy stories than our Constitution & its First amenedment.

[MEDIAITE]

Friday Finger

Continuing today's "America is No. 1" theme, although soon we'll only be tops ("The Hottest!!") in stupidity & delusion. The Louisiana, Alabama & Mississippi of nations, at the bottom of any world rankings.

This Should Freak You Out

Via The Confluence & riverdaughter, who doesn't think everybody is responsible. She's right; it's most of you, but not every one of you. Enough of you that this dying nation does qualify for collective punishment, however.

Friday Freak Out

May well refer to Johnny Ringo, the Yankee cowboy/murderer, rather than Sir Richard Starkey. Good rockin' either way.

Thursday, April 23, 2026

In Memoriam

Trying to remember these United Snakes aren't a complete shithole. Thanks to Bark Bark, Woof Woof; wouldn't've bothered otherwise, but "Rhapsody" is a great American number.

Deportation & Gentrification

There's another "G" word that might apply.Worse than Kristallnacht & The Trail of Tears & in plain view. No shame whatsoever; are they proud?

Stop Them!!

I've always found that corpses can do no more evil, if you get my drift.
"Grab a gun
Grab a noose
Killer techbros
Are on the loose!"

[The New Republic]

Throw Back Thurs.

Racial paranoia strikes deep. From 2015:
Yeah, the police haven't been allowed to look cross-eyed at any black people, let alone arrest them, for 10 yrs. now.

Meanwhile, here & now in the real world Fat Boy Trump consistently refuses to prosecute &/or pardons white-collar criminals. Fuck your mentally ill mouth, Kris. I'm sure you're just as disturbed, gullible & stupid 11 yrs. later.

Yes, Yes, 1,000 Times YES!!

Time For Rude Boy Action In the Streets & Stores!! TAKE BACK AMERICA, STEAL THEM BLIND!!

Absolutely righteous & justified! Help yourselves to anything you want!! As for corporate executives & their flunkies, it's NOT murder, it's killing in self-defense & Gawd is just fine w/ it. It's a long-time Judeo-Xian tradition, like child molesting. Maybe He'll send an angel or two to help you take Holy Vengeance on your enemies, because He's a vicious killer too!
New York Times:'The Rich Don't Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?'
Derek VanBuskirk / The Daily Caller:   NYT Platforms Far-Left Youth Leader To Promote Stealing
Surprised none of these fake news fuckwads give a shit about the billion dollar thefts & grift going on at the top by the politicians & CEOs? Not "crime", just "business as usual". Squawk all you will about crime & lawnorder, scum, but the greatest sin is hypocrisy!
No more shall my people suffer in bondage. Or fucking "jobs".

BRB. Going to the Dollar General or Dollar Tree or whatever it is to help myself, & woe to any pig who tries to stop me. Why don't you call your oinking friends about me again, squealing rat informer, you piece of garbage? Or come visit me in my bunker. You know just where I live, because you're always telling the police. I would simply love to see you in person for just a few mins. I have seven days in psychiatric jail to take out of your rat hide, you awful shit.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

A-Hem!!

Timely reminder from Cassandra's Grandson (On the High Desert) to those who disobey Gawd at America Reads The Bible, from a version of the King James Version:
When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. They have their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will hear your prayer.
Street corners nothing, stay off the telebision, disobediant heretics!
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What Americans actually do, because they're barely-functional semi-literates:

Why We Are Screwed

Commander-in-Chief Lumpy Don doesn't know shit from Shinola®,& Bobby-on-the-Knobby couldn't give less of a fuck.

Why Bother Wednesday

Well?

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Josh Hawley And The Parable Of
The Single-Income Family

More magical thinking from Missouri moron (& Sen.) Josh Hawley, whose bizarre fantasy involves something alright. What exactly that is is anybody's guess, but surely no one older than eight or ten could believe these not-in-The-Bible stories.
"No, we need a kingdom economy. Last I looked, the Lord Jesus was king over our economic life, over our labor, over our families, as much as he is over the church. Amen? We need to reassert the Lordship of Christ. And for those who say to us, 'Leave this to us. Christians, leave the economics to us. Christians, leave the social policy to us. Christians, leave the family to us,' we will say, 'Not on your life, because we serve a Lord who's lord over all of those things. And we will raise up an altar to claim this ground for him, for this country, over the innocent unborn, over our families, over our men and over their labor.'"
What part of NO KINGS do these people not get? Why do we need to "reassert the Lordship of Christ"? Why are we always doing his work? He can reassert the hell out of himself simply by descending from Heaven on His Trumpian Holy Golden Escalator anywhere he'd like, but no. He & Josh are kinda sissified, aren't they? Yes.
Are the works-w/-his hands calluses on his hands from gripping bottles?
Hawley said that the nation must focus on raising up men who are equipped to lead their families in accordance with the Bible. The key to accomplishing this, Hawley asserted, is creating a Christian economy "where a man can support himself and his wife and family by the work of his hands."
Does he mean we should all be janitors & farmworkers? Does this Xian economy mean no regulation & plenty of job discrimination? And how will Jesus perform this miracle, by dictating wages & prices, Commie-style? Waving his magic Jesus wand? He won't even stop wars or genocides, why would he ever give enough of a crap about Hawley's inane fantasies to perform radical change on American society?Another pantywaisted creep who has issues w/ his "masculinity", The Zuck.

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Companies Need More ‘Masculine Energy’

Guessing wymyn have laughed at both of these pencil-necked geeks good & hard more than once in their lives. In constant fear of the bitches & the coloreds. And the rest of us pay for their damn problems.

Tues. In The Punchbowl

Yes!! Anything to break the interminable boredom & ennui of everyday existence among the humanoids.

Monday, April 20, 2026

Four-Twenty

Why all the excitement about Hitler's Birthday? (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) What's wrong w/ you people?You know who else likes parades?

Monday Musicale

"Stand at the cross road, I tried to flag a ride
Ain't nobody seem to know me, everybody passed me by."
Jerks.
Apparently an excellently restored recording.

Retrospection & Reflection

Interesting how thirty yrs. of being abused when not being ignored can turn one into an alienated loner w/ mass killer potential, especially after someone who should have known the fuck better is a squeaing rat yet again. (Lose my number, asshole!)

And why can't I kill? The United Snakes Gov't. kills innocents every day & threatens to destroy whole civilizations, allegedly in your & my names, yet I am not allowed even to speak of the righteous & entirely justified deaths of my enemies? The never-ending hypocrisy only increases my desire to kill, two-faced scum! Think about that for a while.

Sunday, April 19, 2026

More Candidates For The Guillotine

Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alex Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.”

Written by Karp and Palantir’s head of corporate affairs, Nicholas Zamiska, “The Technological Republic” was published last year ;and described by its authors as “the beginnings of the articulation of the theory” behind Palantir’s work. (One critic said it was “not a book at all, but a piece of corporate sales material.”)

The company’s ideological bent has come under more scrutiny since then, as tech industry figures have debated Palantir’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and as the company has positioned itself as an organization working for the defense of “the West.”

In fact, congressional Democrats recently sent a letter to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security demanding more information about how tools built by Palantir and “a range of surveillance companies” are being used in the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy.

Palantir’s post doesn’t reference much of that context directly, simply saying that it’s providing the summary “because we get asked a lot.” It then suggests that “Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible” and declares that “free email is not enough.”

“The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public,” the company says.

The post is wide-ranging, at one point criticizing a culture that “almost snickers at [Elon] Musk’s interest in grand narrative” and at another point touching on recent debates about the use of artificial intelligence by the military.

“The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose,” Palantir says. “Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.”

Similarly, the company suggests that “the atomic age is ending,” while “a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.”

The post also takes a moment to denounce the “postwar neutering of Germany and Japan,” adding that the “defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price” and that “a similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism” could “threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.”

The post ends by criticizing “the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism.” In Palantir’s argument, a blind devotion to pluralism and inclusivity “glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.”

After Palantir posted this on Saturday, Eliot Higgins, the CEO of the investigative website Bellingcat, dryly remarked that it was “extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement.”

Higgins also argued that there’s more to the post than a simple “defense of the West” — in his view, it’s an attack on what he said are key pillars of democracy that need rebuilding: verification, deliberation, and accountability.

“It’s also worth being clear about who’s doing the arguing,” Higgins wrote. “Palantir sells operational software to defense, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren’t philosophy floating in space, they’re the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it’s advocating.”

[TechCrunch]